Antibacklash attachment for reels



July 17 1928.

A. HAAs ANTIBACK LASH ATTACHMENT FOR REEUS Filed Aug. 1, 192"! Jwumku Louis A. Haas Patented July 17, 19218.

UNITED STA LOUIS A. HAAS,Y,O,F sT. PAUL-MINNESOTA.

My invention relates to improvements in anti-back lash attachments for ,reels.

In casting with fishing rods equipped with reels of standard pens that a. turn in the lineabout the spool of the reel is caught with sufiicient tightness between adjacent turns of the line on the spool to cause the line to be drawn reversely under the rotating spool with the result that before the momentum-of the spool is arrested, tangling of'the line on the spool. is eX- perienced. Such tangling of the line, after the lure has been cast into moving water or from a moving boat, causes the casterconsiderable inconvenience in retrieving the lure with the line in tangled condition upon the reel, not to mention the laborious effort oftt-imes required in untangling the line from the reel.

An object of myinvention is to provide a simple, durable and effective attachment readily applicable to a standard reel andv adapted to act as abrake against'the reel spool, when the line-to the reel is .wound L vide an attachment for reels having a head.

under the spool by accidental reverse rotation of the spool in casting. J, j More specifically it is my object to promember' against which a reversely winding .line' engages, said headamemberbeing connected with brake'ar'ms riding upon the flanges of the reel spool and provided-with "a fulcruming device disposed to engage a frame member ofthe' re'el spool occasioned by the-dragof a reversely With the foregoing and, other oh] the following,

' former being 7 attachment, which is'illustratedin' section in.

winding line on said head member.

ects in view, .which will appear in description, the invention resides in the novel combination and arrangementof parts and in the details of construction hereinafter-described-and claimed. I

In the drawings, Fig. view. of a reel attachment embodying my invention; 7

standard reel and rod, a portion of the broken away to disclose my connection with said reel and Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a reelwith my improved i i head member'25 of ,theattachment preparaattachment applied thereto.

' Referencebeing had to the drawing, .itfi

eyelets (notshown) on the casting rod- 1- and'll, front tie member 12, top tie'member design, it frequently haptween the end plates 10 and 11 and with the customary flared flanges 18' at the/.-

tively tightv to the fulcrum 'tab'28 on said butt-pieces 27 and limit the'for- 5 Ward movement of the; attachment on the 1 is a: perspective Fig. 2 is a view illustrating AnTIBAoKLAsH ATTACHMENT FOR mums;

Application filed August 1, 1927. Serial m5. 209,859.

13, rear tie member 14 and bottom tie members 15 and '16, all connecting said plates 10 and 11. A spool indicated inits entirety by the numeral 17 is revolubly mounted beis formed ends thereof, said spool being geared in. th customary manner '(not'shown) to the handle 1 9. A mounting plate 20, secured to the lower tie members 15 and 16=ofthe reel frame, is socketed at one end in the handle:-v

, 21 of'a casting-rod '22 in the usual manner,

the other end of said plate being removably caught beneath the usual clamp ring 23 having-the customary finger piece 24 attached thereto.

'My improved'attachment is illustrated in its entirety in 1, the same including a. wire bent into four-sided shape and comprising a head member 25. {Arched brake arms v26 are turned back wardly in-aligned relation from said brake arms26/ySaid attachment also includesa fulcrum member or tab 28, said tab being turned along a marg1n thereof to form an.

sleeve29. The aligned butt-pieces 27 are inserted inthe sleeve 29 of tab 28, the fit between said butt-pieces and sleeve being irela; prevent accidental turning of but permittingof the swinging movement of saidtabon said-butt-piecesbyforce intentionally exertedby the fingersof the user. 'Inappl-ying the, attachment to a reel, the fulcrum tab- 28 is turned on the butt-pieces I 27 into position fextendingin the general direction'. of the brake arms 26- at the. rear thereof. -With the fulcrum tab 28 thus disposed, the attachment is inserted into the reel, the tab foremost, beneath the upper tie member 13 .of'; the reel frame,the attach- ,mentbeing then further slid along-over the spool 17 until the fulcrum tab 28reaches position'beneath the rear tie member 14. In

I I from said head; member 25 and butt-pieces 27 turned inthisposition' of the attachment, the fulcrum tab"28 is turned on butt-pieces 27 to bring the tab into-the posit-ionshown in Fig. 2 at right, angles to the "rearward. extremities of the brake'arms 26. A line 30 wound upon the spool 17 'ofthe reel is passed .over the tory-to threading said line through the usual means ofthe: said member 25 and the fulcrum tab 28 so that said arms ride upon high portions of the flanges 18 of the reel spool 17. With said brake arms thus disposed with respect to the flanges of the spool, the attachment normally floats freely within the reel, the brake arms 26 lightly'riding upon the spool frames.

I During such normal operation of the attachment, the line 30 is wound onto the spool 17 at the top thereof and normally paid off from said spool at its top. If a turn of the line becomes imbedded and caught between adjacent turns of the line on the spool, as may be occasioned under numerous circumstances in the reeling in of a line, it is found that said line does not pay out freely from the top of the spool upon the succeeding cast. and a reel not equipped with means for preventing the back lash of the line often becomes fouled by the tangling of the line thereon due to the rewinding of the line under' the spool by the momentum of the spool gained at the beginning of the east. That such fouling of the reel can occur will become apparent when it is remembered that a turn of the line lodged between adjacent turns on a reel rapidly rotating in a clockwise direction, as seen in Fig. 2, may be sufficiently tightly caught between said adjacent turns that instead of paying off from the reel at the top thereof in a normal manner, it will be drawn. back under the reel, as shown in solid lines, Fig. 2, with the result that before the rotation of the reel ceases, said line is matted and tangled on the reel much to the trouble of the caster, particularly if his lure has fallen in moving water or in still Water from a moving boat.

In the operation of my improved attachment, the article floats idly upon the flanges 26 of the spool at all times inreeling in the line or casting out the same, except, during the casting out of the line, when a turn thereof has become wedged between adjacent turns on the reel and the wedged turn begins to be carried back underneath the spool. Such a circumstanceas this is illustrated in Fig. 2 wherein it is shown that the line tending to wind back upon the reel underneath the spool is drawn down against the head member 25. This tightening of the line against said headmember causes the attachment to be shifted forwardly upon the flanges 18 of the spool into position wherein the fulcrum tab 28 is brought against the rear tie member 14 of the reel frame. VVh'en said tab fulcrums against said tie member, the brake arms 26 of the attachment are -drawn down against the flared flanges 18 of the spool withthe result that a relatively powerful braking action again-st the rotation of said spool is effected by the attachment. Functioning quickly to arrest the momentum entangling action of the spool is prevented with the resultthata simple tug upon the line will release the wedged turn from the spool and return theline into normal position extending from the top of the spool. Having again obtained the normal relation of the line to the spool (dotted lines Fig. 2) the attachn'ient againfloats idly upon the spool 17 without effect, until a re-occurrence of the condition, above mentioned, when said attachment is actuated through, the head member 25 by engagement of the line therewith to cause the a fulcruming of the attachment on the rear tie member 1 1- of the a reel frame with the consequent'braking action of the brake arms 26 on the flanges 18 of the spool.

To remove the attachment from the reel it is only necessary to turn thefulcrum tab 1 28 downwardly into the position in which it is disposed when the attachment'is threaded into the reel and thereafter draw the attachment out of the reel between the forward and upper tie members 12 and 13 of the reel frame. 7 y

My invention isparticularly advantageous, not only for the reason that it is ex ceedingly simple and inexpensive, but also for the reason thatit may be easily applied to and removed from a reel, and for the rea son that it functions effectively without impediment to the normal actions of the user in casting and without the necessity of any attention or manipulation upon the part of r the user.

Changes in the specific form of 'my invention, as herein disclosed, maybe made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I' claim as new and desireto protect by Letters Patent is:

1. An article of the class described, including a length of wire'bent into four-sided shape to form a head member over which a tie members thereofandadapted thereafter to be turned into said tie members. V

'2. An articleof the class described, including a length of wire bent into fourposition to engage .one of sided shape to form a head member over of the spool, the otherwise prolonged line which a line from the spool of areel may member and adapted to ride the flanges of cluding a fulcrum member fitted on said butt-pieces, said fulcrum member being adapted to engage a tie-member of the reel frame and limit the forward movement of the article within a reel.

3. The combination with a reel including frame plates, tie members connecting same and a spool journaled between vsaid plates and formed with oppositely outwardly flared flanges, of an attachment comprising curved parallel arms adapted to ride the spool, one on one flange thereof and one on the other flange, a head member joining said arms at their forward extremities and adapted to pass beneath a line extending from said spool, and means associated with said arms at their rearward extremities to cause a fulcruming engagement between said arms and one of said tie members when the line is drawn against the head member, whereby a braking action is set up between said arms and the flanges of the spool.

4. A unitary attachment comprising a structure adapted to be floatingly mounted in areel, said structure including braking members for riding the flanges of the reel spool, a stop device associated with said braking members for engagement with the frame of the reel, and a head member also associated with said braking members, said head member being adapted to be disposed beneath a line extending from said spool and to be engaged by said line in the backward winding in thereof to cause the shifting of the attachment on the reel, whereby the stop device is brought into engagement with the reel frame and the braking members are drawn againstthe spool flanges.

- 5. An attachment for reels comprising a brake arm adapted to ride upon a flange of a reel spool, a head member at the forward extremity of said arm adapted to underlie a line extending forwardly from the upper side of the spool, and means at the rearward extremity of said arm for engagement with the reel frame, said means providing a fulcruming connection between said arm and reel frame to cause braking contact of the arm against the spool flange when the line is drawn down against the head member in the accidental windingof the linevon the spool at the bottom thereof. 1

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature to this specification.

LOUIS A. HAAS. 

